''Jon Secada'' is the English-language debut album by

Cuban American Cuban Americans ( es, cubanoestadounidenses or ''cubanoamericanos'') are Americans who trace their cultural heritage to Cuba regardless of phenotype or ethnic origin. The word may refer to someone born in the United States of Cuban descent or t ...

pop singer

Jon Secada Juan Francisco Secada Ramírez (born October 4, 1961), better known as Jon Secada, is a Cuban-born American singer. He has won two Grammy Awards and sold 15 million records, making him one of the best-selling Latin music artists. His music fus ...

, released in 1992. The album features four singles that reached the Top 40 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 or the Top 10 on ''Billboard'''s

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chart, including "

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", which was also a big hit worldwide. The album was certified 3× Platinum by the

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. It peaked at number 15 on the ''Billboard'' 200 album chart in March 1993. At the 5th Lo Nuestro Awards, the album won the award for " Pop Album of the Year".

Track listing

All songs written by

and Miguel A. Morejon, except as noted. # "

" – 5:25 # "Dreams That I Carry" – 4:46 # "

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" – 4:34 # "

Do You Believe in Us "Do You Believe in Us" ( es, "Cree en nuestro amor") is a song by Cuban recording artist Jon Secada for his debut self-titled studio album and for his debut Spanish-language album ''Otro Día Más Sin Verte'' (1992). It was released in late 1992 ...

" – 3:58 # "One of a Kind" – 4:02 (Secada) # "Time Heals" – 4:24 (Willy Perez Feria) # "Do You Really Want Me" – 4:04 # "Misunderstood" – 4:22 (Secada, Scott Shapiro, Tom McWilliams, Jo Pat Cafaro) # "Always Something" – 4:13 (Secada, Clay Ostwald, Jorge Casas) # " I'm Free" – 4:01 # "Otro Día Más Sin Verte" (''Spanish version of Just Another Day'') – 5:27 (Secada, Morejon,

Gloria Estefan Gloria Estefan (; born Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García; born 1 September 1957) is a Cuban-American singer, actress, and businesswoman. Estefan is a seven-time Grammy Award winner, a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, and has been ...

) # "Angel" (Spanish Version) – 4:35 (Secada, Morejon, Estefan)

Personnel

Musicians

Ed Calle Ed Calle (born ''Eduardo J. Calle'') is a musician from Miami, Florida. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela. Calle plays the saxophones, flutes, clarinets, EWI, and keyboards, engineers projects, and performs vocals. He also composes and arrange ...

– flute (5) *Jorge Casas – bass (3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 12), programming & arrangements (6, 9), fretless bass (6) *Rouge Cougu – percussion & shaker (10) *John DeFaria – guitar (2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 12) *Mark Dowdle – vocal intro (9) *

Emilio Estefan, Jr. Emilio Estefan Gómez (born March 4, 1953) is a Cuban-born American musician and producer. Estefan has won 19 Grammy Awards. He first came to prominence as a member of the Miami Sound Machine. He is the husband of singer Gloria Estefan, father ...

– accordion (5) *

– background vocals (1, 11) *Anita Faye Green – background vocals (2, 7–10) *Rafael Falcon – additional drum programming (1, 4, 11), additional programming (5) *Charlotte McKinnon – background vocals (7, 8, 9) *Tom McWilliams – additional drum programming (4), programming & arrangements (8) *Miguel A. Morejon – programming & arrangements (1-5, 7, 10–12) *Clay Ostwald – additional programming (3, 4, 8, 12); keyboards, programming & arrangements (6, 9);

clavinet The Clavinet is an electrically amplified clavichord invented by Ernst Zacharias and manufactured by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany, from 1964 to 1982. The instrument produces sounds by a rubber pad striking a point on a tension ...

(8) *Rafael Padilla – shaker (1, 3, 4, 8, 11, 12), percussion (2, 5, 6, 9), tambourine (4, 12) *Rita Quintero – background vocals (5) *

– lead vocals (all tracks), background vocals (1, 2, 4–11) *Scott Shapiro – guitar solo (8), programming & arrangements (8) *Rene Luis Toledo – guitar (3, 10), guitar solo (12)

Production

*Jorge Casas – producer *Lazaro Cuervo – make-up *Mark Dowdle – engineer *Charles Dye – engineer *Emilio Estefan, Jr. – producer *

Bob Ludwig Robert C. Ludwig (born c. 1945) is an American mastering engineer. He has mastered recordings on all the major recording formats for all the major record labels, and on projects by more than 1,300 artists including Led Zeppelin, Lou Reed, Qu ...

– mastering at Masterdisk (New York, NY) *Henry Marquez – art direction *John Patterson – engineer *Freddy Piñero, Jr – engineer *Clay Ostwald – producer, engineer *

Phil Ramone Philip Ramone (né Rabinowitz, January 5, 1934March 30, 2013) was a South African-born American recording engineer, record producer, violinist and composer, who in 1958 co-founded A & R Recording, Inc., a recording studio with business par ...

– mixing (1, 3, 11, 12) *Alberto Tolot – cover photo *Tim White – other photography *Patrice Wilkinson Levinsohn – engineer *Paco – hair stylist *Mike Couzzi – engineer, mixing (2, 3, 4, 6, 9) *Ron Taylor – engineer *Carla Leighton – design *Eric Schilling – engineer, mixing (5, 7, 8, 10, 12)

Track listing

Personnel

Musicians

Production

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

All-time charts

Sales and certifications

See also

References